Your favourite childhood toys?

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Hard plastic doll from Woolies. My Aunt bought it for me and knitted it sets of clothes to fit. It was more about that it was from Auntie than anything else. I still have it.

Jacks and marbles. Spent hours playing Jacks on my own, and I still remember a green marble I named Rita 😂
I remember loving something called Nature’s Garden - where you planted seeds in Petri dishes and watched them germinate (funny as I hate gardening now!)
I also loved my View Master - looking at pictures in 3D. I still remember some of the pictures, particularly an exotic picture of Zanzibar.

I was reminded recently that another toy Ingot a lot of pleasure from in the fifties was a Bako building set. It was a system that used a series of metal rods that fitted into a base with holes, to for a scaffold on which to slot plastics bricks and other architectual bits and pieces. The models were mostly bay windowed houses and various other fifties type buildings, but it was very absorbing. It would not get past Elf and Safety now because of said metal rods being a hazard but I only remember them being a hazard to my mother’s vacuum cleaner! They come up at toy auctions occasionally and I’m always just a little bit tempted to bid for one…….

For Christmas just before my fifth birthday and with wartime restrictions very much in place my godparents decorated and furnished a second hand dolls’ house which was the delight of my life for years - as an only child I spent a lot of time on my own and invented my own games to fill the time. I sold the house and its contents for the huge sum of £5 in 1953 so that I could buy a watch when I started secondary school.

Early to mid 60’s I had a garden set that I could add to each week with my pocket money.
The local old fashioned toy shop sold bits in packets, so you could get a lawn, flower beds with holes for the flowers to be pushed in, little garden tools etc, even a green house if you saved long enough! I loved it and had many hours of fun.

Greyduster, I loved Bako too. Of course it was made from Bakerlite and I thought of it when I moved here and had Bakerlite light switches. Not sure of the spelling.

Bouncing balls against a wall
Tiny Tears, doll's pram
Doll's house - mine had "running" water in it, and wallpaper on the walls.
Skipping rope.

mrsgreenfingers56

I had a furry monkey on a string of elastic and loved him and cuddled him until he was bald!

Me too, I’d forgotten thank you! I’m sure mine came from the fair where there were also helium balloons with snowmen inside and other balloons with feathers sticking out of them and these fascinated me too.

I loved my dolls, until my younger sister came along and broke them one by one. My favourite was my Black doll. She had black curly hair, rosebud lips ,rosy cheeks ,brown eyes .....and a pearl earring.
71 years later, I can still picture her vividly.

I never liked dolls much at all, or any of the other 'girly' toys that I tended to be given as a young child, not even the dolls house.
Things got a whole lot better once I was old enough for outside toys like a bike, pogo stick and roller skates. By the time I was 7 or 8, I started getting lots of craft-related things, which I loved. Jigsaws and books too

I didn’t really play with toys. I was always outside charging about on roller skates or my little red bike which I rode wearing my cowboy outfit trying to lassoo my long suffering dog who knew exactly when to duck his head!
If I had to stay indoors I read books or made dens under the dining room table.
My mother so wanted a girly girl. I must have been a huge disappointment! 🤠🤠🐕‍🦺

A black baby doll called Susan
A white baby doll called Rosemary &
a big doll called Belinda. I cut her hair off so she went to the ‘dolls hospital’ and was fitted with a wig 😂
Teddy Trousers, Teddy Brown and favourite of all was Teddy Growler who I still have.
They all travelled at some point in a lovely 3rd hand Silver Cross dolls pram
I had Tinker Toy and Fuzzy felt and loads of books. Later I loved playing on my roller skates. As my feet grew so did they. I spent hours playing Jacks which I still have although the ball has perished!
Ad an only child I spent hours entertaining myself with all these toys & games.

I was a bit older when I got it, but there was a game called booby trap with red blue & yellow discs you had to free without the trap springing. I loved that game.
Otherwise I was climbing trees, around the animals, exploring in the woods. If we'd been a home with books I would have been reading, but aside from a dictionary, Pilgrims Progress & the Bible, there wasn't much reading matter.

Loved my nurse outfit with the white arm cuffs.
I only ever had 2 dolls - one was Tressy who's hair grew. You had a tiny key to insert in her back which allowed her hair to grow. In reality you just tugged at the hair to pull it out of her insides.
Snobs and french skipping which all is neighbouring children would play. Those were the days of playing in the road until called in for bed and not worrying about traffic. Happy days!

Davy Crocket hat, (plastic) machine gun, marbles, aeroplane with rotating wings that flew like a kite, peashooter, cart made with pram wheels.

I loved Fuzzy Felt!